As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting "The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" and reminding passers-by that the program is "Putting America Back to Work."

On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there's a 10' x 11' road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov.

However, there's another number that caught the eye of ABC News: $10,000. That's how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign – announcing that the project is "Funded by The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" and is "Putting America Back to Work." The money for the sign was taken out of the budget for the runway improvement project.

ABC News has reached out to a number of states about spending on stimulus signs and learned the state of Illinois has spent $650,000 on about 950 signs and Pennsylvania has spent $157,000 on 70 signs. Other states, like Virginia, Vermont, and Arizona do not sanction any signs.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/signs-stimulus/story?id=11163180

mikey23545

07-15-2010, 12:56 AM

If only <i>all</i> the stimulus money had been spent on these signs, we'd all know how well off we are!

BucEyedPea

07-15-2010, 01:37 AM

As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting "The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" and reminding passers-by that the program is "Putting America Back to Work."
Throw eggs and rotten tomatoes at those signs. Then fill them with bullet holes! :D LMAO

On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there's a 10' x 11' road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov. [/quote]
Well, I hear everything's fine in the DC area. Rome never looked so good—before it fell.

However, there's another number that caught the eye of ABC News: $10,000. That's how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign – announcing that the project is "Funded by The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" and is "Putting America Back to Work." The money for the sign was taken out of the budget for the runway improvement project.

ABC News has reached out to a number of states about spending on stimulus signs and learned the state of Illinois has spent $650,000 on about 950 signs and Pennsylvania has spent $157,000 on 70 signs. Other states, like Virginia, Vermont, and Arizona do not sanction any signs.

One of my neighbor's kids was bragging today that he had an inside track to a TSA job. He gets full benefits right when he starts, despite the fact that it's only part time work. The best part, he said, is that if he can get comfortable living off of a 20 hour work week, he never has to go full time. He can get full benefits, work 20 hours a week, and fish the rest of the time.

I can't blame the guy for taking advantage of the system. That's what it's there for.

Guru

07-15-2010, 02:07 AM

That signage crap ticks me off to no end. They are repairing some roads in my city that don't even need it and putting those damn signs up bragging about it. Go fix the roads that actually NEED repaired and don't waste money on signage to brag about it OK. God forbid government has any fiscal responsibility.